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Prince & Princess: The chess variant that uses the criterion of succession, where the king or queen are replaced in favor of the prince or the princess, created by Antonio Maravi Oyague. [38] Proteus: A chess variant using dice to represent normal chess pieces, created by Steve Jackson Games. [39] Shako: Played on a 10×10 board.
Pages in category "Chess variants" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995. [1] The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants". [2] The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules.
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants. [1] Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. The name given to an opening is not always that of the first player to adopt it; often an opening is named for the player who was one of the first to popularise it or to publish analysis of it.
Chess on a really big board was created as an outgrowth of Betza's ideas on three-dimensional chess, after he noted that an 8×8×8 board for 3D chess would have 512 spaces, more than any large version of chess that had previously been invented; he then considered two-dimensional very large (or, in his word, "huge") chess games, mainly on the ...
Dai shogi (大将棋, large chess) or Kamakura dai shogi (鎌倉大将棋) is a board game native to Japan.It derived from Heian era shogi, and is similar to standard shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and game play.
These are famous individual games in the history of chess. See List of famous chess games for an annotated list. Articles on chess matches and tournaments are in the category Chess competitions. For descriptions of chess variants (games similar to chess but played with different rules, pieces, or boards), see Category:Chess variants
Janus Chess is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Werner Schöndorf [1] from Bildstock, Germany. It is played on a 10×8 board and features a fairy chess piece , the janus , with the combined moves of a bishop and a knight .